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+====== The Ballad of George Fox ======
+Lyrics by Sydney Carter (1964)
+(These are Carter's lyrics.  There are other variants that are frequently heard in the morris dance community.)
+There's a Light that was shining
+when the world began,
+And a Light that is shining in the heart of man:
+There's a Light that is shining
+in the Turk and the Jew,
+And a Light that is shining, friend, in me and in you.
+**Chorus:**
+//Walk in the Light, wherever you may be,
+Walk in the Light, wherever you may be!
+In my old leather breeches and my shaggy, shaggy locks,
+I am walking in the glory of the Light, said Fox.//
+With a book and a steeple
+And a bell and a key
+They would bind it for ever,
+But they can't, said he.
+O, the book, it will perish,
+And the steeple will fall,
+But the Light will be shining at the end of it all.
+[//chorus//]
+"Will you swear on the Bible?"
+I will not," said he,
+"For the truth is as holy as the Book to me."
+"If we give you a pistol,
+will you fight for the Lord?"
+"You can't kill the devil with a gun or a sword."
+[//chorus//]
+There's an ocean of darkness
+and I drowned in the night
+Till I came through the darkness
+to the ocean of Light;
+You can lock me in prison
+but the Light will be free.
+And I'll walk in the glory of the Light, said he.
+[//chorus//]